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No. 128 The Obamacare Disaster
Heartland Policy Study - Peter Ferrara Heartland Institute... the act’s supporters are wrong. “Obamacare,” he writes in the conclusion to this Heartland Policy Study , “is a disaster. Rather than liberate the American health care system from bureaucracy and waste, it blankets it with more of both, suffocating innovation and destroying freedom. The result is a system that is inconsistent... ...
Final Notice: Medicaid Crisis
Jagadeesh GokhaleFinal Notice: Medicaid Crisis, A Forecast of Texas' Medicaid Expenditures Growth, is a paper by Jagadeesh Gokhale, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, conducted for the Texas Public Policy Foundation and released December 2010. PDF Attached. ...
No Free Lunch
Matt Patterson... from providing " affordable" care for everyone, ObamaCare would result in higher insurance premiums... Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare," by policy analyst Matt Patterson just... providing 'affordable' health care for everybody, ObamaCare will in fact lead to dramatically... says adoption of one of the " ObamaCare... ...
2010 July Health Care News (full text PDF)
Edited by Benjamin DomenechThe July issue of Health Care News reports on the reaction to President Barack Obama s nomination of Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, America s primary health care agency. Also in this issue: A joint effort of Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine and Attorney ...
2010 June Health Care News (full text PDF)
Edited by Benjamin Domenech... federal regulators under the new requirements. * Obamacare is expected to hasten the demise of doctor-owned medical practices and force increased unionization of doctors. * Fraud in Pennsylvania s Medicaid program may have cost taxpayers more than $1 billion over the past four years more than three times what the state... ...
Don’t Ignore the Sebelius Scandal
Benjamin Domenech... has taken to the implementation of Obamacare has routinely led them to twist... in Arizona Massachusetts Seeks to Fill Obamacare’s Affordability Gap The IRS Makes Obamacare’s Tanning Tax Permanent Obamacare and the Medicare Trustees Report TEMP... look to lighten the burden of ObamaCare’s regulations... ...
The Obamacare Propaganda Boom
Benjamin DomenechThe latest polling on Obamacare is the worst it has ever... to go back to the pre-Obamacare health care system. A Fox News... those polled want to stick with Obamacare. There is even more evidence in... out an activist program called “Team Obamacare” to “stand up to the conservative... attacks, and tell... ...
2010 August Health Care News (full-text pdf)
edited by Benjamin DomenechThe August issue of Health Care News reports more than 20 states have opted out of the national high-risk pools that are a part of the federal health care overhaul, preferring not to rely on the federal government to run such pools for them. Also in this issue: American small business owners are concerned they may be adversely ...
State Insurance Exchanges: The Case against Implementation
Heartland Policy Brief - Benjamin DomenechState policymakers face a complex task as they decide whether to implement President Barack Obama’s health care law. For those in one of the 29 states currently mounting legal challenges to the law, the decision of how to proceed in the short-term is even more complex. They must decide whether to implement a series of burdensome ...
What’s Next for Obamacare and Employers?
Benjamin Domenech... ask, what about the impact of Obamacare on employers, who face significant new... s CEO discussing the impact of Obamacare on the price of pizza , raising... part-time work in reaction to Obamacare’s hourly threshold: Several restaurants, hotels... costs. -- Benjamin Domenech IN THIS ISSUE: Obamacare... ...
Reminder: Free Money Is Not Free
Benjamin Domenech... Exchange States Balk at $15 Billion Obamacare Tax on Insurers Who’s In Charge of Implementing Obamacare? Majority of Doctors Oppose Full Access to Your Own Records Yes, Obamacare Is Going to Explode the Deficit... assumption: After 2018, the future of ObamaCare’s exchanges will be... ...
Understanding the Health Care Law: The Obamacare Disaster
Peter Ferrara... Protection and Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) is law, “what is in it... 1. Government Takeover of Health Care. Obamacare authorizes an astonishing expansion of government... it, and what they can charge. Obamacare even redistributes premium income among insurers... 2. Soaring Health Care Costs. Despite Obamacare’s... ...
How Obamacare Is Making Insurance Worse
Benjamin DomenechOne talking point about Obamacare that has received little pushback is... Cannon notes other unintended consequences of Obamacare’s employer mandate: To the extent ObamaCare’s employer mandate pushes firms to... bare-bones plan will likely satisfy ObamaCare’s definition of adequate – and because... allows... ...
Ten Things Everyone Should Read About Obamacare
Benjamin Domenech... Grace-Marie Turner, et al.: Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America – An excellent compilation of multiple opinions on why Obamacare fails as policy and is wrong... and Robert Moffitt: How to Replace Obamacare – This National Affairs article is about... is for what ought to replace Obamacare. If anyone... ...
Ten Articles Worth Reading on Obamacare's Anniversary
Benjamin Domenech... by opponents to highlight its defects. Obamacare has been the main topic we... The Wall Street Journal: Liberty and Obamacare Confronted with these concerns, the Administration... than ever. 2. The Washington Examiner: Obamacare on Trial The mandate is a... push for some way to “fix” Obamacare. If Americans... ...
Heartlander: March-April 2011 (full text pdf)
edited by Diane Carol BastThe March-April 2011 issue of The Heartlander features Heartland President Joseph Bast s review of Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, the movie, and reminiscences about the importance of Atlas Shrugged , the novel. Also in this issue: Heartland will host the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC on June 30-July ...
Heartlander: March-April 2011 (full text html)
edited by Diane Carol Bast... nationally syndicated radio program, to discuss Obamacare. He also guested on the Cari... a federal judge in Florida that Obamacare is unconstitutional. Benjamin Domenech, managing editor... of Health Care News , was interviewed about Obamacare by SmartGirl Politics for its podcast... a conservative podcast. They... ...
Heartlander: January-February 2011 (full text pdf)
edited by Diane Carol BastThe January-February 2011 issue of The Heartlander features part two of Heartland President Joseph Bast s two-part essay on the topic, Who has the best plan to restore American prosperity? Also in this issue: descriptions of more than two dozen interviews released in Heartland s series of topic-specific podcasts; an update on activities ...
ObamaCare Battlefront Shifts to the States
Grace-Marie TurnerThroughout the debate over ObamaCare—and back to HillaryCare and beyond... authority to the state. But when ObamaCare was slammed through in 2010, we... pleading that their representatives vote no. ObamaCare gives only passing lip service to... directly spent by HHS to promote ObamaCare and a government-controlled... ...
#256: No Small Tweaks
Benjamin Domenech... ALEC: State Legislators Guide to Repealing Obamacare American Action Forum: Repeal, Jobs, and... States Can Save Their Budgets from Obamacare s Assault IBD: Obamacare Wouldn t Have Saved Child Health... ALEC: STATE LEGISLATORS GUIDE TO REPEALING OBAMACARE The American Legislative Exchange Council, source... Introduce... ...